Blackburn holds the line on Defense spending bill: ‘No vax mandate until recruitment, retention goals’ met
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
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Senator Marsha Blackburn discusses her new bipartisan legislation removing “the Apple App Store and the Google Apps Store” as the gatekeepers for any and all apps that can go on your device.” She also discusses her amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which would “prohibit DoD from removing people who did not get the vaccine until DOD and the military branch reached their goals for their recruitment levels for the year.” This follows the past few years of low recruitment and retention numbers, as recent stats show that the military failed to reach their recruitment numbers by almost 25%. The Tennessee Senator comments, that “we know that recruitment levels are way down, that that our army is going to be about 15,000 troops short this year, and they think it'll be about 21,000 troops short next year. So my amendment is simple. It doesn't say DOD, you cannot do a vaccine mandate. It says DOD, you cannot do a vaccine mandate until you reach your recruitment and retention goals, that protects our men and women in uniform. And it protects the the military, it protects our army, their mission, and being able to implement their core mission. I'm working with House Armed Services Committee and with Republicans in the House. We're trying to get this in the bill that the House is going to pass first and then sent over to us and Senate.”
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| 0:41.8 | Hello American happy Thursday what a great show we have ahead for you at here at John Salomon |
| 0:46.9 | reports. |
| 0:47.9 | The podcast from just the news Senator Marsha Blackburn from the great state of Tennessee |
| 0:53.0 | one of the leading voices on freedom one of the leading voices on fighting censorship |
| 0:57.8 | and cancel culture in the Senate one of the leading voices standing up for those military |
| 1:03.1 | members who are being separated from their military service because of religious exemptions |
| 1:09.4 | or religious objections to the covid vaccine she has been leading on that and of course |
| 1:14.8 | she's also been leading on efforts to bust some of the monopolistic power that big tech |
| 1:20.1 | companies like apple and google exert over the marketplace particularly in the app store |
| 1:24.9 | she has a landmark piece of legislation working its way through the Senate called the open |
| 1:29.7 | app market act. |
| 1:31.9 | Well senator blackburn's going to be here at the top of the show to give us an update |
| 1:35.4 | on all of those issues including her reaction to the acknowledgement by new twitter owner |
| 1:42.0 | Elon Musk that twitter did in fact interfere in the 2020 election and by twitter's ex |
| 1:47.6 | safety chief and censorship advocate Joel Roth who said that it was a mistake to have censored |
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